Beethoven, was told by a music teacher that he had no talent for music. In fact, this teacher once remarked, “As a composer he is hopeless.”
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
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France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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